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What is Page 2? Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. After the jump we’ve included 40 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness. If you have any interesting items that we might’ve missed that you think should go in /Film’s Page 2 – email us!
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Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m operating on, because what better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? Some of the best authors will tell you that writing a short story is a lot harder than writing a long one, that you have to weigh every sentence. What better medium to see how this theory plays itself out beyond that than with movie trailers?
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Before he fathered the young actress Juno Temple, filmmaker Julien Temple became known for music videos and films like The Great Rock’n'Roll Swindle, in which he looked at the Sex Pistols from manager Malcolm McLaren’s point of view. Pistols singer John Lydon decried much of Swindle as put-on bullshit spun by McLaren, but there’s no denying the film’s weird potency. Hell, I even like Absolute Beginners, the bizarro mid-’80s musical Temple directed, featuring David Bowie. And Temple’s Joe Strummer: the Future is Unwritten, a 2007 documentary about the former Clash bandleader, is great.
What will the filmmaker do with the story of The Kinks? Temple is working now with founder Ray Davies to come up with an angle for a feature film called You’ve Really Got Me. Read More »
